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THURs., OCTOBER 28th, 1943 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMAN VILLE, ONTARIO PAGE FIVE JIEýRRI[DGE BOOK IS REAL ROT STUFF W. D. Rerrldge Ha, written book like a bombshell. It is call- ed "Which Kind of Revolution?" As the name implies it is hot stuff. It is hot stuff of such power that it is llkely that the Kremlin has a cabled abstract of the book right now fr~ at thepre-...: Moscow. For be-::ý:: s i d e s dealing, with the funda-:::::::ý mental ques - tions of ti whole ~rd ridge deals with '~~ the question of the second front. writes carrnes such a punchl that it puts the case for the Soviet far more ef- fectively than I have seen it put anywhere else. The fact is of some importance because the main purpose of the Herridge book is to stop what Mr. Herridge thinks is the increasing drift toward complete world dis- aster. He forsees this coming first in the form of Fascism, and then in the form of world-wide imperialist communismn. Thus the Herridge book is in a sense conservative in its final ob- jectives. For he, unlike many of those who hail parts of his book with glee, does not associate the world communist state with the Millenium. The Main Point of thse Rerridge book is that the world, right now, is dividing into two rival camps. He writes "When it becomes plain that Hitler is on the way out then the anti-communist front will go into action. Has that time arrived? American Imperialism thinks so. .. Today Russia knows that an anti-communist front is forming. Russia must therefore know that this second world war is just preliminary to a third one." If ever there were a vindication of a book almost bef ore it got into print what happened in Italy last Sunday is a vindication of the Herridge volume just now getting into print. For thrée days after Italy made hier strange second declaration of war, Martial Badoglio gave a remarkable in- terview to the newspaper pub- lished by the soldiers of the Brit- ish Eighth Army. He expected the British and American armies, he said, to help him fight Comn- munism in Italy. Surely strange words these coming from the head of the government which was de- feated partly by the sacrifice of innumerable ives of Russian soldiers. In Ti% Very Flrst Line Mr. Rer- ridge packs a real wallop, "Is this the last war or must we stili fight Russia," he asks. The answer follows in sentence two. 'That de- pends upon whether democracy can stop itself fromn going Fascist." Theý author does not think that the chances o! stopping this are any too good. He sets forth the reason with crystal-like clarity. And the pungency of his words, for the well-informed reader at least, is increased by the know- ledge of Mr. Herridge's own career. For as ex-confidant of Mr. King, brother-in-law of R. B. Gets High Post [more PhilIptt (now Lord) Bennett: and as ex- -- Minister to Washington, the author had a unique opportunity to know and study the people of whom he writes. Mr. Roosevelt he describes as a conservative streamliner, whose contradictory tNew Deal saved the capitalistjc isYstem in spite of itself. His judgments on many other public figures are equally pointed. But the Public importance of what Mr. Herridge writes rises from the surgical precision with which hie cuts right through to thle seat of the present trouble. On the ticklish question of The Second Front he writes, "This N. R. CRUMP, 38-year-old book must flot concern itself on general superintendent, Ontario questions of strategy. The point district, Canadian Pacifie Railway, for our consideration here is with headquarters in Toronto, la simply this: A decision having one of thse youngest men to attain oen made on the issue of a sec- his present high executive rank pdfront, would the samne decis- with the company. Member o! a ion have been made had we one long-established Canadian rail- leader and one supreme general road family, positions hie has filled staff with the right to comimand in the mechanical field, since over ail of the nation?" starting with the C.P.R. at Field, * * *B.C., 23 years ago, range from Ail The Above Is Subsldiary machinist's apprentîce ta assist- to the main Herridge argument nt superintenden ofmtv This is that "When Deorc power for western Canada. His denies its people f eedmocracy recent promotion was from the ginsto o Fscit." e hve onepost of assistant ta W. M. Neal, ginsta o Fscit." e hve onevîce-president of the company, in that, hie writes, by failing to gîve Montreal. He is a graduate of our people full employment of Purdue University, Lafayette, all resources. Therefore, we are Indiana, a leading school for rail- heading for Fascism in world war way mechanical engineering. three. "The revolution will over- take that war. It would swallow ________________ up that war. When in the Eng- lish speaking world the state goes speech from the medical field to Fascist the common man goes the religious, we might say thiat Communist. . . the common manBilHrdg smyeabtr of Democracy will not fight for BhHrîg smyeabte Fascism against Communism " prophet than heois an evangelist I shahl write more of this later, for a changed way of life. of points where I disagree with His main line of argument is the Herridge line. But meanwhile very simple. The great mass of I regard this as one of the most the people will neyer again be powerful and timely books I have satisfied with anything less than ever read. Every intelligent Can- total production, total distribu- adian who wants to understand tion, and total use of ail the good the real nature of the crisis in things of life. which we are should get this book So far as I can discover, there and read it. It is published by are only a few known ways to Little Brown and Company in the achieve total distribution of the U.S., and by McLeUland and Stew- great total production - which art Ltd., in Canada. everybody now knows is possible: One is under the present sys- HERRIDGE BOOK IS HOPEFUL tem-whîch, however, has plainly OMEN shown it cannot distribute ail it can produce except during war. Lord Bennîett Is Unlikeiy to Another is under socialism, in like this book, written by his whole or 15art. A third might pos- brother-în-law, Bill Herridge. sibly be under somne formi of social But if ever a book needed to be credit - though this as yet, is read at once by mîddle-class peo- purely in the realm of abstract pie and well-to-cho people in the theory. Endlish-speaking world it is thiê Mr. Herridge does not think samne book, "Which Kind of Revo- much of socialism. He does not lution?" think much of the idea of a world For anyone can see that there is government. In saime details of a revolution coming in our west- his arguments about both of these ern world and the only real ques- he is vague and self-contradîctory. tion is what kind it is going to be. But it may be that he is deliber- If enough people in Mr. Her- ately vague and undogmatic about ridge's class get the benefit of his suggested remedies. For no one ideas the revolution* can be as could read this book and not painless and constructive as was !<n9w that Mr. Herridge has keen the mechanical revolution or the insight into the thought processes industrial revolution. of North Americans. He must But if those who sit in thera know that Canadians have a pas- seatsof th mighy pu lth sion ta put things and people into strigs rombehnd he cens i pigeon holes. stheng wrog ay hatheisgoin to «Oh," they say, "he is such and thewrog wy wat s gingtasuch '(Tory, Grit, C.C.F., Com- happen will not be nice. munist, Holy Roller, Social Credit That, I think, is the great and or Tecbnocrat). When once they good service done by this book. It arrive at that "Oh" it is likely to is like the "Stop, Look, and mean that fromn then on they re- Listen" signs that they have at fuse to think about what that the level crossings where road person says except within the meets railway. The signs are limits of the pigeon hole into there, but people do not always which they have their victims heed them.*** caged. The Rerridge Book Seems to The Worst Thing That Could me to be better on diagnosis than happen to this book is that the on its suggestions for cure. Or,1 leaders of the English-speaking if we switched the figure of world should put it into a pigeon THE PURCHASE. 0F VCTORY BONDS AND WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES nuLs STAVE OFF INFLTION NOW -AND A SLUMPLTR tONIRIBUTED IN SUPORT OF TUE FIPTU VICTORY LOAN CAMPAIG N DY 1 10 I T à 1 -L ~. 4 Soldiers' Letters Received by Lions Club. Margaret A. Cameron, (nee Hutchinson), c!0 Mr. Allison, Alexandra Road, Pietermaritzburg, Soutb Africa. "Will you please accept and convey te the members o! the Lions Club my grateful thanks for the box o! fragrant soap. "I might almost feel as if I were accepting this gift under false pre- tenses as, since it was sent, I have been married and have left the army, but I couldn't bear to send it back. "With thanks again for yoilr many kindnesses during the yeffr and every good wish for the future." H. K. Colmer, 407 Squadron, R.C.A.F. Overseas. "A note of thanks for your par- cel o! cigarettes, tbey are very welcome I assure you and grate- fully accepted." C5576 Harold E. McKnight, "A" Coy, H. & P.E. Riegt., lst Can. Div., Cen. Med. Forces. "Just a few lines te let you know the Bowmanville boys are O.K. and making a great name for themselves and the Canadian Army. We landed in Sicily on July 10. There wasn't much op- position the first day but things got tougher as we travelled in- land. We were fighting mostly Italians at first but when we bumped up against Jerry it got really tough but you know just bow tough the Canadians are and you can imagine what happened te Jerry after us waiting nearly four years for it. One tbing we have to give himi credit for, hie is a great scrapper and a sticker but they weren't strong enough here to hold us up. The campaign is just about -over now and we are resting up here in an orange orch- ard but the oranges are green. Nearly ail our work and figbting in the past week has been in the hilîs and we have had to use mules to get our supplies up. My brother, Ross, got a heap o! shrapnel in the face. "We are not getting much mail down here so if any of the people at home wouid care te write to us we would certainhy appreciate it, also a few newspapers. "Thanks a million for ail you have done for us, we are trying to live up to the reputation that you fellows set for us in the last scrap. Please give my best regards to Happy Hobbs, J. J. Brown, Mo Breslin and ail your members." Capt. Chas. R. Clemence, H.Q. 1 Cdn. A.A. Bde., Canadian Army Overseas. "The Lions roared again and the mailman left 300 cigarettes for me just when I was wanting some Canadian smokes. Many, many thanks gentlemen. A couple days later 300 more came from the Bomber Club of Newcastle and I think this little group deserve a special mention, too. "I have met quite a few o! the boys from the "Mad Midlands" and I missed Charlie Spencer by a matter of hours at one place where I enquired for him. "At least I've done one thing over here that I neyer did in Can- ada and that is go skating in July. There's a good artificial ice rink in this town but the ice is usually crowded with beginners and it is no trouble picking out the Can- adians as they flash past." C29560 Cpi. McMann, C. W., 1 Cdn. L. o! C. SignaIs, Canadian Army Overseas. "Just a f ew limes to let you know I received the cigs about one hour ago and want to thank you ail. It is the first mail we have received for seime time. They say there are tons o! it in Halifax but have bad no boats to bring it over. I guess tbey were using most o! the boats for the invasion which is far more important. Sure wish I were with the boys who are fighting and se do ahl the rest o! the boys who are still in Eng- land but I guess our turn will come before long. I have been sitting around nearly three years and sure get fed up." R127863 Sgt. C. H. Witheridge, R.C.A.F. Overseas. "Just a few lines to thank you for the 300 cigarettes I received. They just arrived in time as my supply had run out three days ago and I had just dug the pipe out of my kit bag. 'After eight months in this country I'm becoming climatized and getting more in an apprecia- tive frame o! mind. "I correspond regurly wivxitb hole. For it is an honest man's warn- ing about the two greatest dan- gers which confront our world today: One is that in the process of winning this war against Hitler we should drift into a position wbich will make inevitable a later conflict with Soviet Russia. The other is that when the war is won we should attempt to re- turn to man-made or man-per- mitted poverty in the midst o! God-given plenty for everybody. "Where there is no vision the people perish," said a wise mani, long ago. This Herridge book will not confuse anybody's think- ing and it will clarify the vision o! multitudes who do not yet un- derstand. I regard it as one o! the most hopeful signs o! Dur times. ~Father of Fliers. R«Scmme<ê< 0 Lou NeilIy is a typical Ontario farmer with 85 acres just north of Bradford. Two of the Neilly sons joined the R.C.A.F. One son was killed in service. The other is a Fliglit-Lieutenant on active service. A bond buyer himself, Lou Neilly personally sold $200,000 worth of Victor>' Bonds in the first four loans to people of his own township. When Lou Neilly leans across a fence and chats with neiglibors lie often talks about Victor>' Vilctory Bonds Bonds, and that it's everybody's duty to bu>' them. He says something like this-his message to you: "'The biggest chore in my life is doing what I can to win this war. 1 want my son and lis pals, your sons, to get everything they need to do their job over there-wherever they are. 1 want too, to put aside what savings 1 can into Victory Bonds to give my oldest boy a fresh s fart when lie takes off bis uniform. You can put savings a great man>' places, but there is only one place where your savings wil give our boys in service the help they need now. Everybody knows that Victory Bonds are as good as dollar bills-and that you can borrow on them any time you need cash-but we sbould bu>' bonds as our dut>' to our fighting men." A UY VICTORY BONDS National War Financr omtt were received from: Capt. Wally Braden, S.D.G. Highlanders; C51280 Bdr. A. B. Cryderman, 34 Bty, 14 C.F.R., Can. Army Overseas; Gnr. E. Bird; M. L. Etcher; Sgt. F. E. Trenoutb; C1757 Gnr. Connors, T.E., 102 Bty., 8th L.A.A. Regt., R.C.A., Can. Army Overseas; Sgt. R. E. Bate; B81723 Cpl. Payne, W.L. 1 Cdn. Corps Trps., 32 Coy., R.C.A.S.C.; LICpl. R. J. Balson; Gnr. Gordon C. Woolner; Gnr. A. J. Allun; Gor- don Flaxman; Sign. A. D. Brook- ing; C51281 Bdr. Colmer, H. T., 14 Can. Fd. Regt. R.C.A.; C50563 Sgt. Cameron, A.W., 4th L.A.A. Regt., R.C.A. DON'T TAKE THE RISK "I think I can make it," the dress- maker said, As she scanned the pattern new; In just two days the dress was done, A garment rare to view. "I think I can make it," the car penter said, As he looked the blue prints o'er; In two short months a dwelling stood, Wbere none had been before. "I think I can make it," the black- smith said, As sparks from his anvil flew; In haîf an hour lay at his feet, A horse's well shaped sboe. "I think'I can make it," the mot- orist said, As he passed the car ahead; But bal! a second wasn't enougb, And now two men are dead. RALPH GORDON 628 Crawford St., Toronto. Loss o! sincerity is loss o! vital power. - Bovee. 'NEVER A BAD, SAD OR BLUE DAY - NO THOUGHT 0F BEING POOR My grand! ather emigrated to Nortb America in 1835. Having beard that war existed between Texas and Mexico, be joined Samn Houston's army, writes Walter Douglas in Blue Book Magazine. That is the reason our !amily bas lived in tbe great Soutbwest. 1 find mysel! thinking in terms o! wide spaces, !earless independ- ence, individual self -su!ficiency. 1 grew up with little money, but with no tbougbt o! being poor. What we needed, We made or did without. If a neighbour had it, we borrowed. What a neigbbour wanted, we lent. People lîved in dugouts, sod shanties, or log cabins. Cattle and horses wintered in canons. The idea o! fear, eitber o! sickness, poverty, accidents or enemies, neyer entered my mi. With wild life phentiful, bogs in the forests, and cattie on tbe prairies, none ever tbougbt o! food being scarce. My psycbology bas not changed with cbanging conditions. Ai- though wild life bas disappeared, cattle are corraled arid hogs irn- pounded, yet Arnerica bas neyer come near tbe rough edge o! starvation. Even during the 10w- est trougb o! our post-war de- pression, numerous men and wo- men bave declared tbey could !ind bread and work wben tbey cared to meet conditions. Personalhy, I bave neyer been bungry, nor yet accurnulated wealtb. Neyer bad a bad, sad or blue day. Wbile some dlaim to bave c6me up tbe bard way, others with silver spoons, I have corne the happy way, contented and independent, believing tbe sun will rise each morning, and that stars wihl shine at nigbt. So far as I arn concerned, times bave always been good. We wil win tbis war, after wbich times will be good again. Ail o! us have sons, daugbters, nephews, or other relatives in the armed forces today. I expect mine to return. They did not go to die, but to win the war. It would be poor pbilosopby to sit with head between knees wait- ing for a dark message from tbe War Department. I expect rny loved ones to return with badges on their hapels and figurative scalps to their belts. The afterrnath o! the war may be unpleasant: high taxes, worn shoe-sohes, thinner slices o! bread, more patches. Yet potatoes are always plentiful, corn abundant, sunsbîne inevitable. Sbould tbe hens stop haying, we eat the hens. Wben tbe spring runs dry, we dig wells... This should be the hast war. Allied leaders couhd make a last- ing peace provided they think in universal termas rather than in national selfishness. But what- ever the peace termas, interna- tionalism bas so forced itself upon the peoples o! the earth as to give humanity a new pbihosophy. Yesterday is gone forever. A better day is dawning. When this war is over, I shal belp pay the buis without com- plaint when and if our country again is forced into conflict, I will do my part. America bas ahways had a su!- ficiency o! essentials; I see no reason why the flow sbould cease. I think the bappiest life-condition is that splendid medium between indolence asleep at bis post, and foolish ambition snapping nerves ordsutighatlavs à SPEED THE VIETOlY SQVE NOW- DUY SETTER -&.#FTrEfl TII! W/Il A TRE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO PAGE FIVE ib q«O 0 0